(Thanks to Paolo Treossi for
sending me this entire collection of 56 problems in softcopy.)

Ernest Bergholt of London, England, was
apparently the first-ever collector of double dummy problems. His book, Double
Dummy Bridge, was published in 1906. I am rather surprised by this
title because I hadn't realised that any game called bridge existed at that
time, when surely whist was so popular that the title Double Dummy Whist
might have been more appropriate! Many of the problems in this book were
composed by Bergholt himself.

Unsurprisingly, the problems are mostly quite easy
compared with those in my own collection and many in Coffin's collection, but
they illustrate many ideas which show up quite frequently in one form or another
in later problems. However, in spite of Coffin's
dismissal, some of them, for example number 44,
seem quite tricky to me.

Most of the problems were composed by either Bergholt
himself or the legendary W.H. Whitfeld.
These composers seemed unashamed of specifying helpful opening leads and also
distributed insignificant low cards randomly, a practice deprecated by most
modern composers.

Here is a list of links to the entire section, in numerical
order (there are gaps in the numbering because some of the problems were found
to be too unsound and I wanted to keep the original numbers for my own
convenience):